Annual free dinner helps others

12:57 AM,
Nov. 23, 2012

Cindy Anderson serves up turkey at the Marshfield Community Thanksgiving Dinner at the Columbus Catholic High School cafeteria on Thursday. Cindy has been volunteering at the dinner for about six years.

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Twenty-four 14-pound turkeys, 66 pumpkin pies and 230 pounds of Wisconsin-grown mashed potatoes were among the entrees for Thursday's Marshfield Community Thanksgiving Dinner. Besides the nearly 300 people who sat down to eat, close to 150 people were fed with take-out meals.

Some who ate at the dinner were there because money is tight and the meal was free. But the majority who showed up at the Columbus Catholic High School cafeteria were there because it was a way to share a holiday with others and give back to the community, said Jane Stevenson, one of the Thanksgiving dinner organizers.